Friday, April 04, 2014

The ATF Gestapo Illegally Scan Gun Owner Forms For Gun Registry

The ATF Gestapo Illegally Scan Gun Owner Forms For Gun Registry

Obama illegally prepares for complete gun confiscation of U.S.
citizens, this is coming soon to a town near you. And then watch all your rights and freedoms
go away…read this, all of it, this is important my friend.

By de Andréa

April 4, 2014

Last year, Gun Owners of Americawarnedthat
the "ATF
(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is going from dealer to
dealer, illegally copying the information on these forms (4473), and feeding it
into a database." We've seen, in recent weeks, how this
unconstitutional agency is illegally terrorizing small business owners, such asAres Armor, andraiding their establishmentstogather information on their customers,
(be sure to watch the video) in what
is part of the plan to create a national gun registry database which can only
be used for total gun confiscation. This is one of Obama’s loose cannons of his Gestapo,
and is being done illegally and behind the backs of Congress.

Now comes yet another story – this one out of Maine.

According to Phil Chabot, owner ofPac N Arms, the ATF used illegal tactics to attempt to
scan information on his’ customers as well.
He fought back!

Chabot has worked with the general public and various law
enforcement agencies over the past twenty-two years and has many federal
agents, including DEA, FBI, Homeland Security, ATF and US Marshals as
customers.

Though Chabot acknowledges that ATF conducts Industry Operations
Inspections every five years (IOI - an audit that all firearms dealers [FFLs]
may be subject to, during which the ATF verifies our inventory and is supposed
to verify all paperwork and record-keeping is being done correctly and is
properly maintained) NEVERTHELESS…I
have previously pointed out that any and all federal gun laws are
unconstitutional (this is a must read and be
sure to watch the video)since the states never gave any
authority to the federal government when it comes to restricting arms of US
citizens. Therefore the ATF or BATFE agency, in its existence today, is a
violation of the Federal US Constitution. Did you know
the original ATF was nothing but a department of the IRS to collect special taxes? Now it’s Obama’s Gestapo SS…soon they will be
illegally breaking and entering your private space.

Chabot has engaged in numerous IOIs with the ATF that, according
to him, are usually "completed within a week." However, he said the
most recent audit, which took place in August of 2013, "went on over two months,
and it appeared to be little more than a thinly-veiled attempt to create a
registry of my clientele."

Under 18 USC § 926, anyone in the Justice Department, including
members of the ATF are categorically prohibited from seizing any records or
documents other than those constituting material evidence of a violation of
law.

Specifically, the law
reads:

"No such rule or regulation prescribed after the date of the
enactment of the Firearms Owners' Protection Act may require that records
required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of
such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or
controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision
thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or
firearms transactions or dispositions be established. Nothing in this section
expands or restricts the Secretary's authority to inquire into the disposition
of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation."

While the first day of the audit produced no problems, except some
corrections that needed to be made on ATF's end, Chabot said that ATF employee
Wayne Bettencourt produced ahandheld scanner, approximately the size and shape of a
large marker, and began to go through the bound book of ATF 4473 forms and
attempted to scan all the pages of the documents, which contain over 1700 forms
from gun sales and transfers.

Chabot confronted Bettencourt about his illegal procedure and
Bettencourt said he has the authority to do it. Chabot said he did not and told
the agent that if he were willing to give him a written statement that he had
that authority, he would not stop him from scanning. This was an attempt to
hold the agent accountable.

According to Chabot, "Bettencourt vehemently refused to
provide me with anything signed by him or other ATF authorities, and made the
ridiculous claim that the records were the property of the ATF and he could do
with them what he liked, and that if I kept refusing him, he would be back with
an administrative warrant so that he could just take the records that I am
bound by federal law to father and maintain. I again refused to allow Bettencourt
to illegally copy my records, at which point he told me that I should be
careful not to make the investigation about me, and that 'my license depended
on how well I worked with him.' This was clearly a threat intended to let me
know that if I did not allow him to perform the illegal activity of copying my
bound books, he would retaliate and that my Federal Firearms License was at
risk."

In other words, Bettencourt seems to have been extorting Chabot in
order to illegally seize customer information, ie. create a national gun
registration database.

Mr. Chabot went on to say, that after he continued to refuse
Bettencourt's illegal actions, Bettencourt said he had legal investigations to
conduct and didn't want to be interfered with. However, since no warrant had
been produced, Chabot stood his ground, noticing "that Bettencourt seemed
to be scanning chiefly the A&D pages and especially concentrating on every
woman and on every person who had purchased more than one firearm in a
week."

At that point, Chabot told the agent to stop using hisscannerand told the agent to provide him with
a list of the criminal cases he was alleging to be investigating. Bettencourt
was unable to produce a list.

Bettencourt became angry and belligerent, angrily repeating his
previous statements about taking the records through administrative warrants
and threatening Chabot's licenses. To the best of Chabot's knowledge,
Bettencourt does not have investigative authority to even allow for any type of
criminal investigation, as his job encompasses records keeping compliance, not
criminal investigation.

Following that issue, the audit seemed to go well. However, when
Bettencourt returned on August 16, 2013 to follow up, he demanded Chabot exit
his shop, told him to get a good lawyer because, in Chabot's word, "he was
going to see to it that there was an administrative warrant taken out on my
business ASAP, and that he would be taking my records."

While Bettencourt couldn't understand his own illegal actions and
that fact that Chabot was standing up for his customers and the law, he was
apparently threatening Chabot's livelihood for not allowing him to break the
law and scan any records he wanted to.

Bettencourt returned again on August 29, 2013 and attempted to
scan documents once again, and once again Chabot stopped him from doing so.

On October 9, 2013, Bettencourt returned once more and attempted
the same illegal action. Chabot said, "I told him that not only was it
illegal, but that I felt I was personally liable and ran the risk of being sued
by my customers if their personal information, including social security
numbers, got out. I told Bettencourt that I would allow the scanning only with
a warrant or a signed statement attesting to the legality of the scanning.
Bettencourt finally told me that the audit was finished and once again angrily
responded that he would not be signing anything and yelled at me that he would
be working toward revoking my current FFL's and making sure the application for
the FFL for my new location was denied."

Chabot contacted Bettencourt's supervisor in Boston, Agent Linda
Champagne, who told him that if the agent didn't get to copy or scan his
records, the ATF would pursue the revocation of his current license and deny
his application for the new shop he was working on. This is in clear violation
of the law.

Chabot says that he has spoken to numerous agents in various
federal agencies and they have all expressed concern over the cavalier attitude
of the ATF. And why shouldn't they? Anyone rememberWaco? How aboutRuby Ridge?Fast and Furious? Yes,
all of those were the product of the ATF, an illegal and unconstitutional
federal agency.

In speaking to Mr. Chabot to confirm the situation, he referred us
to his attorney, Penny Dean, who asked us to postpone an interview for a couple
of weeks until they have obtained certain witnesses in the matter, which we
agreed to do. Our desire is not to make it more difficult for justice to be
brought to bear in the matter. However, Ms. Dean did encourage us to report onMr. Chabot's letter to his Senator, Susan Collins,
which is where the bulk of this article comes from.

Phil Chabot did tell Freedom Outpost that he does want other gun
dealers to stand up against illegal actions by the ATF for the sake of their
customers privacy. I applaud his efforts to stand his ground, based on the law.

Perhaps you would like to contact Agent Linda Champagne and ask
her why she would extort Pac N Arms in such a fashion to illegally obtain
customer's gun records. Her number is 617-557-1200. While you are at it, maybe
you would like tocontact Senator Susan Collinsand find out why she is not standing
for her constituents against a rogue federal agency that is engaging in illegal
activity against US citizens.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Hopefully all my readers
have already heeded my warnings beginning several years ago - and you have
purchased all the weapons and ammunition you will need to fight another civil
war. If you need a few more thousand
rounds of ammo, be sure to pay cash and never sigh for it. Above all, never register
your weapons or you will eventually be illegally raided just like these
business.

If you
agree, please share these posts with your friends, family, and coworkers. The only way to defeat the lies and
propaganda of a government and its controlled media is to spread the truth.

If you
don’t agree, let me know why!

Thanks for
listening – de Andréa

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2013 by Bottom Line Publishing – Permission to reprint in whole or in part is
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About Me

I am a first generation American. My ancestors immigrated from Europe, legally I might add. My education is the equivalent of two years of college. No degree, so if you find that I am grammatically challenged, please forgive me. I am however, very well read in philosophy, political science and American history. I write about many subjects, mostly political. Sometimes about what chaps my hide, or just to provoke thought. I have been accused of being a right wing Christian conservative extremist, so I am coming out of the closet. I confess, yes, I am. I believe that it will take the power of God and a lot of extreme people like myself to grab hold of the steering wheel of this country and take a sharp turn to the right in order to stop this great nation from being buried in liberal socialism and tyranny. I welcome your comments, positive or negative. You can e-mail me at writedeandrea@hotmail.com or leave a comment at the bottem of my articles.